Star Trek Enterprise Tidbits

Carlo di Bonk writes: "I found a good article about the new Star Trek Enterprise television evil forces. These evil villains are from the future and the mirror universe. It seems to be an interesting chance that it is a different mirror universe though, to one seen in Star Trek The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and other Star Trek television." Lots of little plot bits too, like the fact that they will have transporters, but they won't be trusted because they randomly kill people (like the first movie!) With Farscape running start to finish, my copy of Lexx Season 1 on DVD en route, and the new Star Trek a few weeks away, I think I need to take a week off ... a scifi sabbatical ;)

Must... see... soon...

[Midnight Ryder]

I'm dying to watch Enterprise. While I've heard a couple of people say it's gonna suck, I really think it's possible it may end up being the best Trek yet.

The future isnt' so far way in Enterprise - it's going to be easier, IMHO, to relate to the universe in the Enterprise series than it was in ST:TNG (and definitely easier to relate to than Voyager. Blah.) I also think they may have a chance to make statements about humanity in general again. Voyager pretty much never did it, and DS9 didn't make much of an effort.

But, of course, that's just my opinion. No matter how good or bad it is, someone is gonna say it sucks compaired to (TOS, TNG, DS9, V, TAS ;-)

The bad guys however - this could be interesting. I do hope they are used sparingly like they did the Borg for a while, instead of every episode centering around trying to duke it out with them.

Everyone cross your fingers, and hope they manage to get this series right!

Re:Que!

[zephc]

also, here's one of my favorite Q quotes

"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'

Jeri as Seven

[Anonymous Coward]

Jeri as Seven is rumored to be making a cameo appearance in the next (and final) TNG movie, Star Trek X:Nemesis. Also Janeway has a brief appearance... holds a conversation with Picard. Riker and Troi will get married, Riker gets promoted to become captain of the new Enterprise "E". Picard makes Admiral and finally accepts the big cheese position as commandant of the Academy. The biggest event, however, is that Data dies... in a situation that sets up too close of a parallel as when Spock "died" and came back to life.

Potentially interesting sf scenario...

[Midnight Ryder]

Oh, certainly. In the end, "It's The Writing, Stupid!" The vehicle only matters in that it allows the good writers to do good work. Having one alternative humanity is okay, but infinite multiple alternative humanities -- a la "Sliders" (a show that took advantage of its premise less often than "Star Trek") -- has possibilities.

I totally agree. Even if they had the best plot setup in the world, writers could still screw it up and totally miss the possible moral issues that could be explored. Conversely, they could have a crap setup for the show, and the writers could still use it to explore deep moral issues and to hold up the mirror to humanity and force ourselves to take a closer look. And I'd prefer the later to the former.

Think about it. If one alternative future can come back and mess around with the past...what's to keep any number of alternative futures from trying the same? :)

Take that one step further, and you have a very strange (and potentially intersting scenario.) Have a universe where alternate futures keep traveling back into the past to change history - and end up fighting each other. A war torn past where the futures spend more time in the past fighting each other than accomplishing thier goals. Which, of course, would end up really screwing up the future. Now that could be a bizzare premise for a book / series...

Re:Transporter solution.

[AnalogBoy]

Theres got to be a pseudological reason for it.

The same pseudological reason that the ability for phasers to fire in a wide-beam is lost between TOS and TNG [besides dramatic effect]

Also the reason why the ships phasers can't be used to stun an entire feild of people [ again, TOS ]

Why can't the doctor be backed up in voyager [ Except, of course, for that one convienent period in "Living Witness" ]

Why haven't the borg absolutely PUMMELED earth? Past, present, or future... Get a few tactical cubes [ why do the borg need tactical cubes ] and just let earth have it once and for all.. GO BORG!

Why the enterprise-D didn't have multiple phaser emitters on the saucer rather than two large ones - it would have made more tactical sense, both/all could fire at the same time, hitting the same target! argh!

And i still stand by my idea that they should have made a few mini-movies centering around the excelsior.

P.S. I am the prototypical Simpson's "Comic Store guy".

Re:Anyone ready to place bets...

[Van Halen]

This interview [startrek.com] pretty much answers both of your questions:

Q: Have you heard from Dean [Stockwell] since you got the role?

SB: No. He called me on Father's Day,but we missed. I have not talked to him. But wouldn't that be great if we could get him on [as a guest on Enterprise]? It has to be; we've got to do it. But put him in a big mask so he can be miserable for once! [Laughs]

Q: Are they telling you to avoid anything? Like, don't say, "Oh boy."

SB: They haven't written it on the page, and I won't be ad-libbing it! [Laughs] No, I'm not avoiding anything. Certainly, if we got to a place where Dean was a part of a show, that would be walking a very thin line if he was a guest. But no, there's no directive about, "Scott don't do this" and I'm not really watching myself. Look, a lot of Sam Beckett was a part of me, and a lot of this captain is a part of me -- I haven't split off personalities between then and now. There will be similarities. I'm just older.

Pretty interesting stuff.